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Joy (she/her)
@joyhopefully.bsky.social
Bright spark of divinity, Daughter of Elysium, Fire-inspired.
Which do you prefer … color or b&w?

Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, Kansas City, MO
November 3, 2025 at 2:01 AM
#clarinet cover of L’amour toujours by Gigi d’Agostino. Arrangement by @tomplayapp. #teambackun

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#clarinet cover of L’amour toujours by Gigi d’Agostino. Arrangement by @Tombooksapps. #teambackun
YouTube video by Joy Hope Fully
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June 9, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Why I Started Playing Clarinet in My 40s
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Why I Started Playing Clarinet in My 40s
YouTube video by Joy Hope Fully
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May 4, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I play with the Mid America Freedom Band, an LGBTQ concert band here in KC. Friday was our season finale and we premiered this timpani concerto which we commissioned to celebrate our new timpani.

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Concerto for Timpani and Wind Ensemble
YouTube video by Mid America Freedom Band
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May 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Clarinet cover of U2’s “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” #teambackun ​⁠

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Clarinet cover of U2’s “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” #teambackun @Tombooksapps
YouTube video by Joy Hope Fully
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April 28, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Jammin with the Mid America Freedom Band at the 37th annual AIDS Walk in KCMO

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Jamming with @midamericafreedomband5000 at the 37th annual AIDS Walk KC!
YouTube video by Joy Hope Fully
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April 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM
This is a little scary to share, but also really important. I’ve decided to chase a dream: becoming a pro clarinetist. I’m over 40, self-taught, and didn’t go to music school—but playing has changed me. It gives me purpose. I’m choosing to believe I can build a life around it.

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A Late Start, A Big Dream
YouTube video by Joy Hope Fully
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April 21, 2025 at 1:29 AM
One of the formative experiences of my childhood was playing French Horn in the pit orchestra of my high school’s production of “The King and I”. 📯

It was amazing. 🥰

Now that I’m playing clarinet I’ve been kinda keeping my eye out for any opportunity to play in a pit again. 👀
April 13, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Been having some motivational issues lately

Someone said to me today “You can do this. And you’re allowed to want it.”

It’s really sticking with me so I made a meme out of it
April 11, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I practice my clarinet like a lot.

But I live in apartment building. My neighbors are super cool (the one I share a wall with is a jazz drummer, so I don’t think it would be possible to annoy him).

But I worry nonetheless. So I bought a ClariMate to try out.

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Going to give the@BuffetCramponParis ClariMate a try. #clarinet
YouTube video by Joy Hope Fully
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April 9, 2025 at 5:37 PM
For the first time ever in my life I sat down and sketched out a 5 year plan 🤔 😋
April 7, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Rehearsing Julie Giroux’s “Culloden” with the Mid America Freedom Band, getting ready for our season finale May 2. Such a great clarinet part! 🥰🥰🥰

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Rehearsing Julie Giroux’s “Culloden” with the @midamericafreedomband5000.
YouTube video by Joy Hope Fully
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April 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
It was four years ago I first picked up a clarinet. I’ve come such a long way. And I am so thankful for this journey. 🥰🥰🥰

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Four years?!?!
YouTube video by Joy Hope Fully
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March 22, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Clarinet folks will get it 🥰🥰🥰
March 22, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Oh Danny Boy on clarinet.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

​⁠Shirt from Clever Clarinetist

Backing track by TomPlay

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Oh Danny Boy
YouTube video by Joy Hope Fully
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March 17, 2025 at 3:28 AM
“I have to create, or it was all for nothing. I have to create, or I will crumple up with despair and never leave my bed. I have to create because I have no other way of voicing this.” Her hand rested on her heart, and my eyes burned.
March 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Life sings to me
February 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
One of the ensembles I play with — Mid America Freedom Band — is playing Nancy Galbraith’s Wind Symphony No. 1 and this is the name of the publishing house … that’s a really clever name I think 😊
February 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
We dIdN'T KnOw hE'D Be tHiS CrUeL AnD Do aLl tHeSe cRaZy tHiNgS!

bullshit

BULLshit

bullSHIT

BULLSHIT
February 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The only thing I want to do is play my clarinet

We should live in a world which enables this kind of lifestyle

As opposed to stifling it
February 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
When Apple first released their Classical Music app I didn't really get it, I used it for a few days then went back to the standard music app

The last several weeks I've been being much more intentional about my music and I gave it another chance and I'm really really enjoying it now
February 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Loving this suggestion
#NowPlaying 🎻

Clarinet Quartet 03 in D major, Op 7 - Bernhard Henrik Crusell
Thea King / Allegri SQ
February 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I realized that Patreon is kinda like a legitimate version of the daddies of the sucrose variety.

I’m auditioning for a clarinet 2/3 spot with the Overland Park Civic Band tonight.

I haven’t auditioned for anything in like 30 years 🤪

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February 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Three Fantasy Pieces, Opus 73 - No 1 Zart und mit Ausdruck, Robert Schumann. Clarinet. Arrangement by ​⁠​⁠TomPlay. youtu.be/iJuIKtk8bXY?...
Three Fantasy Pieces, Opus 73 - No 1, Schumann
YouTube video by Joy Hope Fully
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February 24, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Do I believe in magick?

Of course I do.

With nothing more than a hollow tube of wood I can conjure memories, entire stories.

I can rouse people to dance, or reduce them to tears.

I can transport them to distant lands and different eras.
February 17, 2025 at 12:33 AM